When preparing to retake the MCAT, students typically hope for a 5-10 point jump or higher, but according to the AAMC most students barely improve by 2-5 points on their second attempt. Does this mean the situation is hopeless?Should you just give up on your dreams of becoming a doctor and settle for something else?Maybe […]
Newspaper Strategy For Increasing your MCAT Verbal (CARS) Score
The MCAT’s Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS) section is a challenge for many pre-med students. You may have spent your undergrad studying the sciences without much time for casual or academic reading. Also, unlike the sciences you are used to, you can’t study cold hard facts to improve your verbal (CARS) score. As an MCAT […]
Are You Ready for the MCAT?
With a few weeks to your MCAT test date, how do you know that you’re really ready? It can be hard to feel confident. But there are ways you can know for sure as you approach your test that you are READY! This video takes you through a few self-evaluation questions to help you figure […]
Solving Antilog MCAT Questions Without A Calculator
This video picks up from MCAT Math Part 8 – Logs and Negative Logs showing you how to solve questions where the log value is provided. Instead you’re asked to solve for the anti-log value in questions relating to ion concentration and Ka values. Anti-logs, just like logarithms, are difficult to calculation without a calculator […]
How To Tackle MCAT style Logarithm Questions
When it comes to mathematical calculations on the MCAT shortcuts are the way to go. But with most shortcut you have the option of falling back on the long yet proven pen-and-paper calculations to get your results. But this is not the case when it comes to logarithms. Logs or negative logs, unlike multiplication, division […]
Trigonometry Overview and Sin Cos Trick for MCAT Questions
Trigonometry is a topic that sends many pre-med students screaming for the hills, especially when it comes to applying sine, cosine, and tangent values to angles stated in an MCAT style question. The average student will memorize ‘radical 2 over 2′ as the sin or cos value for a 45 degree angle, but how on […]
Fractions Ratios Percentages and Proportions on the MCAT
Not every difficult MCAT question is inherently tough. You may find yourself faced with a potentially easy physics or chemistry MCAT question, only made tough by the detailed and tedious math required. This is especially true when fractions are involved, in the form of dimensional analysis, ratios, proportions, or finding percent values. The math is […]
Squares and Square Roots in MCAT Style Questions
The MCAT, especially the physical sciences section will require you to solve numerous equations and work through different calculations. While many of the math tricks I teach are simply ‘shortcuts’ teaching you a faster way to solve a given question, math tricks are even more important when it comes to squares and square roots on […]
MCAT Scientific Notation in Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
https://leah4sci.com/squares-and-square-roots-in-mcat-style-questions/https://leah4sci.com/squares-and-square-roots-in-mcat-style-questions/While math is not tested directly on the MCAT, you WILL be faced with a number of science questions where scientific notation calculations are required. Without a Calculator! Scientific notation on the MCAT is a common source of panic, because unlike simple long multiplication and division, it’s hard to fall back on pen-and-paper method. This MCAT […]
Factor Of 10 Shortcut in MCAT Multiplication and Division
This tutorial continues from MCAT Math Video 2 where I show you how to use the factor-of-10-trick to quickly multiply and divide any number by a factor of 10, 100, and so on. However, many of your MCAT chemistry and physics calculations will not be this clean and easy. But you certainly cannot afford to […]
